MEET THE AUTHOR
 
   1 title in paperback
   32 pages  full-color
   $8.00 each
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   32 titles in hard cover
   32 pages full-color
   $14.95 each
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The Collection: 32 titles by popular and award-winning authors, written especially for grades 2-5. Engaging text and fascinating, full-color photographs invite children to see how their favorite authors turn ideas into books.

Patricia Polacco's NEW book, Still Firetalking, now in paperback as well as hard cover. Show young writers where authors get their ideas and how they organize ideas into stories.  And more.

The original Firetalking, one of 32 titles in the Meet the Author collection, is in most school libraries.  Now the book is published in a new edition with the title Still Firetalking, the first of a new generation of Meet the Author books available in both hardcover and paperback.  In this new edition Patricia talks about her childhood and her challenges with learning to read.  She also talks about how she became interested in writing children’s books that spring from her memories of childhood and her interest in illustrating books.  In addition to updating her life story, Patricia has refined the discussion of  how she creates the art for her books and she has added new text to explain how she writes and revises her stories. 

 AUTHOR AT WORK
 
   4 titles in paperback
   64 pages  full-color
   $8.00 each
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The Collection: 4 titles by well known children's book authors. This UNIQUE and INSPIRING collection of 64-page, soft-cover author memoirs is for students in grades 4-7. Students gain useful, practical knowledge of writing from examples of the writing process shared by these successful authors.

Ralph Fletcher is a well-loved author of many valuable books, including books about how to write in various genres.  His books help teachers inspire students to become eager and proficient writers, and his school visits are a celebration of reading and writing. Ralph Fletcher includes a chapter on My Writer’s Notebook in REFLECTIONS.
 

Author at Work books are for older children.  They are based on the same model as Meet the Author, but they are 64 pages in paperback with more space allocated to tell the author’s story and to explore how they resolve challenges to writing.  Each of the four books in the collection includes a table of contents.  See for example Ralph Fletcher’s book,REFLECTIONS.

Readers of Author at Work books will discover common elements that appear in the four current titles.  They will also discover distinctive differences in the way each of the authors works.  The four authors in the collection are Ralph Fletcher, Nikki Grimes, Margaret Mooney, and Jane Yolen.  An outstanding cluster of writers by all standards.